40 MEMORIAL OF JOSEPH HENRY. 



engage; and the more we know, we adore Thee and love Thee 

 the more. No man indeed can find out the work which God doeth 

 from the beginning unto the end; yet thy intelligent creatures can 

 behold thy working, and understand the invisible things of God 

 from the things that are made. 



We thank Thee, Lord, for the high gifts with which Thou didst 

 so plentifully endow thy servant, whose services in the cause of 

 science and humanity we meet this evening to commemorate. We 

 praise Thee because Thou didst put wisdom into his inward parts, 

 and give understanding to his heart, so that he applied himself to 

 seek out and to reach knowledge and the reasons of things. We 

 bless Thee because he was enabled to throw light on that which 

 God doeth, on those things which are forever, and those things to 

 which no man can add and from which no one can take away. 



We exalt Thee because mankind have been able to take advan- 

 tage of the discoveries of the departed in order to make knowledge 

 to pass to and fro all over the earth, and to add to the intelligence, 

 the wealth, and the comfort of thy creatures. We pray Thee to 

 raise up other great and good men who, in like spirit, will carry on 

 the work in which he was so honorably engaged. 



We pray for his widow and for his family, whom he so loved ; 

 that the prayers he offered for them when on earth may return in 

 the richest blessings from heaven and from earth upon their heads 

 and upon their hearts. 



We thank Thee, Lord, because Thou didst bestow on him not 

 only gifts, but graces, faith, and humility, and integrity and love. 

 We rejoice that we can this day contemplate so pleasantly his char- 

 acter ; that we can cherish the remembrance of him as of a man 

 of high aims and lofty purpose, devoting his life to the cause of 

 science and to the glory of God and the good of mankind. 



We bless Thee for that faith in Christ which supported him in 

 life, and for that hope that cheered him in death, and that we can 



